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Linda Ronstadt

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Heart Like a Wheel

Linda Ronstadt · 1974

Heart Like a Wheel is a technically exact, commercially dominant country-rock record from 1974. It prioritises vocal clarity, instrumental definition, and radio-ready pacing over mood, risk, or ambiguity. Every sound serves the song’s emotional architecture — nothing more, nothing less.

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Harvest

Neil Young · 1972

Harvest turned an accident into Neil Young's biggest record. Unable to stand for long after hurting his back, he wrote and sang from a brace, recruited Nashville session players he called the Stray Gators, and folded in the London Symphony Orchestra for two tracks. The result gave him a number one single and a sound so widely copied he spent much of the next decade running from it.